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The Smart Path to Food Security

Aaron Mc Nicholas — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 23:00:00 +0000

China lacks land for farming, but companies are pursuing new technologies to help get the most produce out of every acre.

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China’s Soft Pork Underbelly

Aaron Mc Nicholas — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 23:00:00 +0000

China has launched an anti-dumping investigation into European pork, but its import market has already been narrowing.

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The Food Security Gene

Aaron Mc Nicholas — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

A look at how Beijing is shedding its skepticism about GM crops.

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Buying the Heartland

Grady McGregor — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 23:00:00 +0000

Does the U.S. need to worry about China encroaching on its territory? Many states used to court Chinese investors, but in recent months, more than two dozen states have considered or passed new legislation to restrict Chinese ownership of farmland. With the federal government getting involved too, the change in attitude could manifest into one of the most significant and potentially consequential ‘decouplings’ in the U.S.-China relationship: agriculture.

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Seed Savior?

Isabella Borshoff — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 23:00:00 +0000

Agribusiness giant Syngenta is unique on the world stage: it is a state-owned Chinese firm with an American CEO. After ChemChina's historic purchase of the company in 2017 — the largest ever purchase by a Chinese company overseas — Syngenta is now ready for its big China debut with a planned blockbuster IPO in Shanghai this fall. But while "modernizing" farming in China has been good for Syngenta's business, helping Beijing achieve its long-sought after goal of food self sufficiency will be more complicated feat.

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Date Deception

Eliot Chen — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 23:00:00 +0000

Thanks to the recent enactment of the Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol has had its hands full with imports from Xinjiang. The story of one brand of red dates, or jujubes, shows how Xinjiang companies evade scrutiny and end up on U.S. shelves.

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The Adaptation Advantage

Eyck Freymann — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 23:00:00 +0000

China is mobilizing to adapt and thrive in a rapidly warming world. Under Xi Jinping, the country has undertaken thousands of projects — across industries and in every part of the country — that are clearly designed to protect the country against extreme climate impacts. The second part of our series, The Warming War, explores China's strategy and its profound geopolitical consequences. Is America ready?

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China’s GMO U-Turn

Katrina Northrop — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

After long restricting GMO crops, Beijing has begun loosening its stance in the name of food security.

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The Corps of Xinjiang

Katrina Northrop — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:00:00 +0000

Without understanding the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), it is impossible to understand modern day Xinjiang. Understanding the XPCC, however, is no small feat.

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A Kernel of Hope

Katrina Northrop — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000

During the past year, U.S. corn exports to China have reached record levels. Will the surge last?

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China’s Pandemic Pork Haul

Eli Binder — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 23:00:49 +0000

As U.S. producer Smithfield warned of meat shortages unless plants stayed open, workers contracted Covid-19 and exports to China surged.

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Willy Shih on Why the U.S Needs to Run Faster

David Barboza — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:00:00 +0000

The Harvard professor explains why Huawei is at the forefront of 5G and how Covid-19 shocked supply chains.

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Operation Purple Maze

Mara Hvistendahl — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 23:00:00 +0000

When a Chinese agribusiness tried to steal corn seeds from farms in Iowa and Illinois, it set off an elaborate, multi-year FBI investigation — raising questions of efficacy and fairness in economic espionage cases.

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